cs01 / you-might-not-need-requests

alternative ways to make http requests in Python without the requests package

This is a work in progress

The Python requests package creates a convenient API to make http requests, but comes at the price of adding a 3rd party dependency to your project.

You might be able to get away with using Python's standard library (and keeping your sanity) if you're doing something simple.

Feel free to copy any of these code snippets to your codebase, no attribution required.

http GET request

requests

import requests

requests.get(url)

without requests

import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

def http_get(url):
    res = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
    charset = res.headers.get_content_charset() or "utf-8"
    return res.read().decode(charset)